Good luck to you, too. I have only asked permission from one friend and it was an easy yes. I am scared to ask for any more because of the situation you described. I really feel like why should I put myself through that when I have plenty of nails to dig up on my farm. I was always afraid of the park sites also, anxiety of being approached and told it was a no no, or worse, being attacked/robbed. That’s what I like about this group we started. 4 are tnetters and Cowboye really seems to know his stuff. Might be 5, I think his bride might have joined. I’m going to ask today. And get this, I invited Peyton, so it would be 6 if he joins us. And we have one lurker who it turns out was hubby’s taxidermist years ago. So I am feeling comfortable now.
Mornin all.
A park I lived near as a kid has been about as pounded as one can be.
My intro into detecting was there in the late sixties early seventies.
Later (a dozen years ago?) my first Indian head would come from there.
And study of it's history led me to another distant park where my first Seated dime was recovered.
Then...A park a few miles away from me today with a history back into the eighteen hundreds has really been pounded.
It is my default /get reaquanted with the detector site , and if no other site is in mind for a quick hunt I'll hit it.
Have recovered silver out of it andother goodies.
A guy used to visit it while visiting from Ohio that did alright too. But it takes being on your game.
All that to say ; parks are better than not going detecting!
Watching others detect has helped.
New to the park folks seem bewildered at all the signals. OR , they're so danged good they know what they don't want.
It's the little peeps and iffy deep stuff that turns up surprises they missed.
One example was two nails on end (heads up it seemed) with a silver dime below them.
How many detectors zoomed right on past??
A burned rubble and tenish inches of depth turned up another oldie.
Too much iron in the mix for the impatient.
Howa park has been worked by equipment in the past matters.
One (the one with rubble in areas) had debris from a prior village fire spread around over it and fill added on top.
Another had dirt pushed around and things dug for drainage ect..
Where the earth work ended (at least one time /event) the ground fell away slightly like a tiny slope towards the unworked ground. That edge of where pushing/reading dirt ended was a sweet spot.
Shade trees /stumps roots have produced.
A sidewalk requires excavation and soil dug.
You have solid experence with kids.
Track them down from a half century ago.
Where they played. Where they got water ect.
Bonus points if there was any concession stand way back when. A pay phone. Even just a pop machine .
And if edges are rough terrain or grown up with brush ect. , look at them from an eye decades ago. Any reason a group would have been there?
But more importantly. Have fun!
